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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 22, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2019
Cartiva, Inc., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Steven P. Walsh, Marietta, GA (US);
Letitia Tudor, Larenceville, GA (US);
Ernest N. Corrao, Jr., Bethel, CT (US);
Craig B. Berky, Milford, OH (US);
Jonathan P. Bauer, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Jeremy Hemingway, Cincinnati, OH (US);
Michael Axelrod, Roswell, GA (US);
CARTIVA, INC., Alpharetta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of creating a wedge-shaped recess in a bone is disclosed. The method includes creating a cylindrical recess within a bone, positioning a tool within the cylindrical recess, radially expanding an articulating cutter of the tool and rotating the tool to remove additional bone along the cylindrical recess' side walls and create a wedge-shaped recess; wherein, a diameter of the bottom surface of the wedge-shaped recess is larger than a diameter of a surface opening of the wedge-shaped recess.